02402nam 2200637 a 450 991082665200332120240416173531.00-8018-8934-0(CKB)1000000000482224(EBL)3318296(OCoLC)923193264(SSID)ssj0000244225(PQKBManifestationID)11217569(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244225(PQKBWorkID)10164244(PQKB)10648018(MiAaPQ)EBC3318296(OCoLC)614506339(MdBmJHUP)muse2563(Au-PeEL)EBL3318296(CaPaEBR)ebr10188497(EXLCZ)99100000000048222420060221d2006 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrSentimental figures of empire in eighteenth-century Britain and France /Lynn Festa1st ed.Baltimore Johns Hopkins University Press20061 online resource (311 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8018-8430-6 Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-288) and index.The distinction of sentimental feeling -- Sterne's snuff box -- Tales told by things -- Making humans human -- Global commerce in Raynal's Histoire des deux Indes.Above all, sentimental texts used emotion as an important form of social and cultural distinction, as the attribution of sentience and feeling helped to define who would be recognized as human.English fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismFrench fiction18th centuryHistory and criticismSentimentalism in literatureImperialism in literatureColonies in literatureEnglish fictionHistory and criticism.French fictionHistory and criticism.Sentimentalism in literature.Imperialism in literature.Colonies in literature.823/.509358Festa Lynn M(Lynn Mary)1663962MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910826652003321Sentimental figures of empire in eighteenth-century Britain and France4021692UNINA